Author Archives: jedypod

Droplet Sunrise Explosion

By jedypod | Published: August 2, 2008
Due to the inevitable migration of my sleep schedule during times without large quantities of obligation, I happened to be awake at about 7am one morning. I felt like going for a walk, for it had just stopped raining. The rain was the first in a couple of months. The sun was just rising behind [...]
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2008 Tacoma Fireworks

By jedypod | Published: July 11, 2008
I had the good fortune to have the best 4th of July evar. I always wondered what was missing from my 4th of July celebration experience, and it turned out the answer was . . . very large explosives. By a stroke of luck I was able to help set up the 2008 fireworks finale [...]
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Paul Graham’s Disagreement Hierarchy

By jedypod | Published: May 28, 2008
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Lethe – Section 1 Draft

By jedypod | Published: May 20, 2008
Lethe was originally intended to be the first section of a larger project about the growth and perceptual evolution of an artificial intelligence. Unfortunately my time in SOS: Media ran out, due to The  Trouble With Unicorns and my insanity of time overcommitment. Having spent a great deal of time on conceptualization and preproduction for [...]
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Destroy

By jedypod | Published: March 8, 2008
An old structuralist work mutilated by the digital age. Download MP4
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Suzie Templeton

By jedypod | Published: December 4, 2007
Suzie Templeton is the brilliant and amazing animator responsible for the animation Dog, which I previously mentioned. Recently, while revamping my old posts to get videos that were embedded in them working with my newly redesigned theme and newly added implementation of the JW FLV PLayer ( which now, thanks to Flash 9, can play [...]
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Tír na nÓg

By jedypod | Published: December 4, 2007
Tír na nÓg: The Land of Eternal Youth or the Land of the Ever-YoungNote: In order to play this, you may need to update to Flash Player 9, which supports h.264/aac muxed in the popular mpeg4 container format. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh [...]
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HV20 Workflow, Processing, and Image Quality

By jedypod | Published: November 9, 2007
In a previous post, I briefly discussed some of the specific concerns of working with footage from the Canon HV20. In this post, I will talk about these things in a little more depth, and with some example pictures to more fully demonstrate what I’m talking about. Here is a full resolution frame-capture of a [...]
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Summertime

By jedypod | Published: September 9, 2007
This blog has not received too much in the way of activity updates in the life of Jed. Accordingly, here is one on the subject of summertime. This summer was exceedingly much more busy than last summer, during which time I was unemployed and did not accomplish a great deal. This summer, I was fortunate [...]
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SOS: Media – Week 10

By jedypod | Published: June 10, 2007
For the last 7 days, I have been working pretty constantly on the Trouble With Unicorns. On Thursday of last week, we shot the Meadow pixilation sequence, and on Monday, we shot more stills of our actor who plays Morgan, whose name is Venu Mattraw, walking through forest. We also shot the pixilation scene that [...]
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